FREELAND TRIBUNE. PUBLISHED BVKBT MONDAY AND THURSDAY. TIIOS. A. BUCKLEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE: MAIN STREET AIIOVE CENTRE. SCBSCUII'TION KATES. Ono Year.... gl 50 Six Months 75 Four Mouths 50 Two Months 25 Subscribers are requested to observe the date following the name oil the labels of their papers. By referring to this they can tell at a glance how they stand on tho books 111 this oiHco. For instance: Grover Cleveland 2SJune!>s means that Grover Is paid up to June 28,1505. Koep the figures In advance of the present date, lieport promptly to this ofilcc when your |iuier Is not received. All arrearages must 1 paid when paper is discontinued, or collection will be made In the manner provided by law. FREELAND, PA., JULY 5, 1894. W hat has Congressman ./fines erer done to deserre a rcnomina tlon from the Democratic party ' There is a movement iti Chicago to have Sunday services in tho various theatres, especially lectures with a stereoptieon ou tho life of Christ, and prominent persons are considering topics along this lino. A special list of slides is to be prepared by the St. Andrew Brotherhood. The object of this is to gather the large number of people who ou Sunday will not go to church, but aro ready to enter a theatre. * Senator Brice, who is chairman of the senate committee ou Pacific Bail roads, has a treat in store for the members of that committee, which will combine pleasure with the accu mulation of useful knowledge of the property with which tho committee has to deal. As soon as congress a 'journs ho will take the committee in his private car on a tour over the entire Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads. osition of pafts, at first slow, becomes n a short time sff rapid that there is danger of an explosion, to obviate which it is well previously to mix with the chlorate an equal weight of bioxido of manganese, a black powder. These two Bubstanees should be placed in a glass connected hy a rubber tube with a jar or bottle containing water, and heated until the oxygen is all obtained. Now take a long, coarse needle, impale I a bit of a match on its point and insert j its head in a small cork attached by a wire to a large cork stopper, which will cover the mouth of the jar. This apparatus is shown separately in the cut. Set fire to the match end, and in troduce it while burning into the jar of oxygon. The bit of wood burns vivid ly, then the needle becomes incandes cent, and with ft crackling noise sends sparks In every direction until all the oxygon 1R consumed. The effect is somewhat like that produced by a roman candle. The bottom of the jar is protected by a good depth of water, otherwise it would be inevitably shat tered by the drops of melted oxide of iron shed by the needle. When the process of combustion is ended a little round knob is found at the end of the needle which has not been burned. This is melted oxide of Iron, caused by combustion. A thin knitting needle may bo burned with equal success in the same manner.—Once a Week. Old Shoes In n Now Eight. A French savant has invented a new science which he terms scarpology, whereby he proposes to diagnosticate mental qualities from the appearance of the shoes worn by the subject. He claims that shoes that have been worn are full of faithful indications as to lack of energy, fickleness, bad temper, or the opposite qualities as the case may be. If the sole and hcol of a shoe, after two months' wear, are equally worn, the owner is an energetic business man, an employe that can bo relied on, a good wife or an excellent mother. If the outside odgo is most worn, the owner is adventurous to rashness and of a bold and persistent turn of mind. Wear of the inside edge indicates irresolution and weakness in man and modesty in woman. llow the Weather Shift*. It Is a remarkable fact that in the temperate zone of both hemispheres the weather is constantly shifting from west to east. This is true to a degree hi the lower polar regions—we know little about the higher—but it is not true of the tropics. In the tropical zone severe storms are likely to travel westward, and the smaller local storms travel in all sorts of directions. INSTEAD OF THE BONE. Vulcanite Supplies Missing Sec tions of the Human Frame. Dr. Michael*. of the French Academic at Pari*, Replace* a llrokon Ilone of the Arm by a Rcully Won derful Operation. At the French academic a very deli cate operation of prothesis was recent ly performed, showing- just what could be accomplished in replacing a portion of the skeleton by means of aseptic artificial pieces. The surgeons have proved that artificial pieces made of vulcanite or metals that do not oxidize can be buried in the tissues and left there with impunity. I)r. Michaels performed the opera tion. The patient had had tuberculosis of the humerus and shoulder Joint, complicated with suppuration and fis tulae. An operation was imperative, but the removal of the diseased tissues would have left such a hole that the wound would never have healed, and the functions of the limb would have been lost if an artificial joint had not been interposed between the lower fragment of the humerus and the scapula! Dr. Michaels' apparatus to supply the deficient bone is described in the Paris edition of the New York Herald as fol lows: It is composed of three parts: First, a straight rod, eight centimeters long, P THE APPARATUS. destined to replace the piece of hu merus removed; second, another straight piece, representing the neck of the same bone; third, an irregular sphere for the head; the whole four teen centimeters in length and made of vulcanite. We have not space to describe it in detail, but can only say that the three pieces were fastened to gether in such away as to admit of all the movements of rotation and circum duction of n natural joint. It is a me chanical oh